Rich Lowry Will be Promoted Out of His Editor Position at National Review, Supposedly So He Can Concentrate on Big-Picture Stuff

I don't know if I believe that the termination of his job overseeing National Review is actually a "promotion," supposedly for an even betterer job overseeing "long-term" initiatives.

It's weird. As you know, I'm Slightly Psychic. All last week, like on five separate incidents, I had this idea that Rich Lowry would be asked to leave his job at NR.

However, my psychic powers, while real, are as weak as ever. I certainly did not expect National Review to double-down on their brand of weak-sister split-the-difference push-corporate-libertarianism-and-rebrand-it-as-Sacred-Principles-Conservatism by installing effeminate NeverTrumper Ramesh Ponuru as the new editor.

As bad as Lowry is, Ponnuru is worse. Lowry at least pretends to care for the opinions and desires of the conservative base. Ponnuru -- of corporate pass-through organization AEI, and leftwing Bloomberg -- is scornful of it and hostile to it.

Supposedly -- and again, I don't know if I believe this -- it's a "growth period" for National Review.

I occasionally read their comments to see how their "evolution" is being greeted. I can definitively state that National Review is experiencing a "growth period" in leftwing commenters imported from places like Slate and Salon.

Rich Lowry, the longtime editor of the conservative opinion magazine National Review, is stepping down from his role overseeing the print publication to focus on more strategic long-term initiatives as the company's editor-in-chief, Lowry tells Axios.
Ramesh Ponnuru, a longtime editor with the outlet, will lead the magazine.
Why it matters: The transition comes amid a growth period for the 65-year-old magazine and now-digital media outlet.
By the numbers: National Review has roughly 110,000 subscribers, about half of which are digital. It's increased digital subscriptions about 30% over the last year.

Note they mean NRPlus. This is not a big deal as it seems, as NRPlus only started in 2018. When you start from zero you have room for growth.

However, this claim would be a big deal:

Total revenue has been up about 20% over the last year, per Lowry, who cited the company's growth in circulation, podcast and email revenue.

If these numbers are true -- I don't see any citation to anyone but Rich Lowry -- then NR is obviously not in the dire financial straits I imagined it was in.

"A few years ago, we had an overall operating loss of almost $2 million," Lowry says. "We have closed the gap considerably the last couple of years and are now much closer to break even."
The company, which is a subsidiary of the nonprofit National Review Institute (NRI), has raised more than $1 million over the last year in small-dollar donations from its readers -- most of it over the last three months.

And how much has it raised in very large donations from corporate clients?

National Review always claims that the magazine itself doesn't take money from Google.

But you know who does? The National Review Institute, which funds the National Review magazine.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that the tech giant gave funds to the National Review Institute, the policy arm of establishment conservative magazine National Review -- but there is a discrepancy in Pichai's explanation of why the donation is not listed in the company’s annual transparency report.
Pichai used his written answers to congressional questions to disclose his company’s donation to the National Review Institute, which was revealed by National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg last year. The Google CEO confirmed the donation, stating that it was made in 2018 and would, therefore, be disclosed in the company’s next report.
"Google has a long history of supporting organizations on all sides of the political spectrum," said Pichai. "Google was one of several corporate sponsors of the National Review Institute's William F. Buckley Prize Dinner in 2018, which is scheduled to be reported in our upcoming transparency report."
But the National Review Institute's website states that it received a donation from Google a year earlier, in 2017. This donation was not disclosed in Google's transparency report for that year.
Google's contributions to the National Review Institute were brought to light by a report in the left-leaning technology magazine Wired, which detailed a number of the tech giant's contributions to establishment conservative institutions in order to fend off tech regulation from Republicans. Other organizations funded by Google include the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
National Review subsequently published an article from a senior member of the CEI, arguing against the use of antitrust legislation to break up Google and other big tech companies. The article was published four months after the National Review Institute's 2017 William F. Buckley Prize Dinner, which as the Institute's own website discloses, was sponsored by Google among other companies.

National Review claiming it doesn't get money from Google, when its parent organization does take money from Google and then funds National Review with it, is every bit as absurd a lie as St. Anthony Fauci vowing that his agency doesn't fund the Wuhan lab, because his agency merely funds EcoHealth Alliance, which then takes his money and sends it to Wuhan.

I honestly do not know how they get away with such obvious lies.

Update: Pep notes that this kind of lie is well-tolerated in Media Culture:

PBS claims some very small % of its budget comes from taxpayers. Instead, much of their programming is bought by the Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Guess where their money originates.
Posted by: pep

Also an update:

34 I plowed Rich Lowry's wife like a fresh spring field
she does pilates you know
Posted by: The Paolo

Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

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1 Hi

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:01 AM (ONvIw)

2 The NYT get away will obvious lies, as does 80% of DC

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:02 AM (ONvIw)

3 Mine

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:03 AM (ONvIw)

4 4

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:03 AM (ONvIw)

5 If no one challenges it, is it a lie?

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:04 AM (ONvIw)

6 3 minutes and all mine

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:04 AM (ONvIw)

7 top 10 and back after an all morning meeting..

and fuck lowery with tranny dick

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 22, 2021 11:05 AM (8D42x)

8 Magazines? Who reads last months news this month?

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 22, 2021 11:05 AM (qZdIZ)

9 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:05 AM (LvTSG)

10 I .... can't bring myself to care

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 22, 2021 11:06 AM (j9HX3)

11 Well they don't have to feed Jonah. That has to have cut expenses. I don't read it anymore and avoid clicking on links to them. Do they even have any writers that do anything other than "The Conservative Case for Corporate Rules" and "Conservative Case for Surrendering on Anything You Care About?"

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at June 22, 2021 11:06 AM (EpDzw)

12 Standing Athwart History Yelling "Yes, Mr. Omyidyar! Right Away, Mr. Pinchai!""

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at June 22, 2021 11:06 AM (Ndje9)

13 A few years ago, we had an overall operating loss of almost $2 million,"
Lowry says. "We have closed the gap considerably the last couple of
years and are now much closer to break even."tl:dr
Shorter version: we're losing money.

Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 11:06 AM (v16oJ)

14 PS... Rookie mistake, it took me just over three minutes to read the content.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 22, 2021 11:06 AM (qZdIZ)

15 Hah. In a Micro MoMee with another Moron. It's a virtual/remote event, so no booze or guns (physical, anyway) involved, but I declare it a MicMoMee!

The "secret handshake" was amusing.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 22, 2021 11:07 AM (8C7+r)

16 Well, if the money is growing, that counts.

But seriously: an amusing idea came when Ellen Pao said that deplatforming "works." In terms of keeping ideas off social media, it absolutely does. In terms of drawing down interest in those ideas, it fails spectacularly. The claim is that Infowars has been reduced to less than 1000 viewers on YouTube. In reality, Alex Jones routinely enjoys popular memes, and his appearances on Joe Rogan remain some of that program's most popular shows.

And by using mass scale censorship, the credibility of conspiracy theories enjoys a boost. No one censors total fakes.

Posted by: trev006 at June 22, 2021 11:07 AM (6Hf0d)

17 14 that's what they all say

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:07 AM (ONvIw)

18 National Review claiming it doesn't get money from Google, when its
parent organization does take money from Google and then funds National
Review with it, is every bit as absurd a lie as St. Anthony Fauci vowing
that his agency doesn't fund the Wuhan lab, because his agency merely
funds EcoHealth Alliance, which then takes his money and sends it to
Wuhan.
PBS claims some very small % of its budget comes from taxpayers. Instead, much of their programming is bought by the Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Guess where their money originates.

Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 11:08 AM (v16oJ)

19 I honestly do not know how they get away with such obvious lies.

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Its' front groups (masks?) all the way down ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 22, 2021 11:08 AM (O4X3m)

20 How does NR get away with lying about taking money from companies like Google?

Easy, they fire the writers who would point it out, like Steyn, Derbyshire and Coulter.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 22, 2021 11:08 AM (2SdPm)

21 Union members get paid by government who then pay unions dues to get more money from government.

Taxpayers fund government who spend more than the get from taxpayers who then borrow from lenders who get paid interest from government. Interst paid by taxpayers

Posted by: torabora at June 22, 2021 11:08 AM (9UyG4)

22 Hmm. I seem to be all out of fcuks to give for NR.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (m+jkK)

23 15 Hah. In a Micro MoMee with another Moron. It's a virtual/remote event, so no booze or guns (physical, anyway) involved, but I declare it a MicMoMee!

The "secret handshake" was amusing.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 22, 2021 11:07 AM (8C7+r)
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No guns? *gasp!*

Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (MVjcR)

24 Iconic and Pure Pottery that a literally who diversity person is replacing Lowery after Lowery shilled for years replacing millions of Americans with diversity.
Enjoy the new Caste System you imposed on the rest of Americans, asshole.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (rJclo)

25 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

26 Look, Google only funds cruises. Nothing else! Ahoy!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (7bRMQ)

27 Hunter is getting 500k for a painting. That's all we need to know about DC integrity.

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (ONvIw)

28 Hah. In a Micro MoMee with another Moron. It's a virtual/remote event, so no booze or guns (physical, anyway) involved, but I declare it a MicMoMee!

The "secret handshake" was amusing.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 22, 2021 11:07 AM (8C7+r)

not going to ask if pants are verboten for that or not...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (8D42x)

29 18 PBS claims some very small % of its budget comes from taxpayers. Instead, much of their programming is bought by the Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Guess where their money originates.
Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 11:08 AM (v16oJ)

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Unicorns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (LvTSG)

30 If I had a fuck, I sure as Hell wouldn't waste it on National Review.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (o2MD2)

31 Field of f***s status:
[ ] Fecund
[ X] Barren

Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (v16oJ)

32 "I honestly do not know how they get away with such obvious lies."

Most either never know or learn that they're lies or don't care.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (H8QX8)

33 Q: Why don't you teach prostitutes philosophy?

A: That would be putting Descartes before the whores.

Posted by: Rich "Big Picture" Lowry: "We'll Be Here All Week. Folks!" at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (Ndje9)

34 I plowed Rich Lowerys wife like a fresh spring field

she does pillates you know

Posted by: The Paolo at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (bTQ72)

35 Lowry says. "We have closed the gap considerably the last couple of
years and are now much closer to break even."tl:dr
Shorter version: we're losing money.
Posted by: pep
They whored out to Google and they're STILL losing money!

Husband to wife: " I'm sorry that we're poor and you had to resort to prostitution...How much did you make?"

Wife: $37.25

Husband: "Who gave you the $.25?"

wife: "All of them"

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (VYjdj)

36 It's weird. As you know, I'm Slightly Psychic.

Why did I read that as "slightly psychotic."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

37 110,000 subscribers between print and electonic?

How many unique visitors does AoS get in a week?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (psJgU)

38 The tech oligarchs must be collecting original Bidens. They pay-off all the famous DC families and journos.

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (ONvIw)

39 Sidebar: The snippet of the sea lions gulping the fish in the net -- where was this? Off northern California?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (/XOcP)

40 15 Hah. In a Micro MoMee with another Moron. It's a virtual/remote event, so no booze or guns (physical, anyway) involved, but I declare it a MicMoMee!

The "secret handshake" was amusing.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 22, 2021 11:07 AM (8C7+r)

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No pants?

Posted by: ShainS at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (O4X3m)

41 Look at what we've lost over the last few years.

Rush, Drudge, NR, Fox, Trump's been silenced, countless social media bannings...

Not much more to go.

Posted by: Just Saying at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (7aWUy)

42 We've gone from losing 2 million a year to losing only 1.5 million a year! If this trend keeps up, by 2050, we'll only be losing $100K a year! Of course, we'll have to move our offices further inland, due to sea levels rising because of global warming, but, hey, we're still here to advocate for conservative causes!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (2SdPm)

43 "We have closed the gap considerably the last couple of years and are now much closer to break even."

If I move a foot east, I'm much closer to New York City. Which is still 225 miles away.

Also "closed the gap" and yet not yet breaking even? Then who is making up the shortfall guy? The Tooth Fairy?

I'm guessing *cough* China *cough*.

Like I said they finally decided they'd given him enough rope and he dutifully hung himself all over the place.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (++Sf8)

44 ...However, my psychic powers, while real, are as weak as ever...

Ace, eat more tofu and bean sprouts, supplemented with Venezuelan Beaver Cheese.

soon you'll be prognosticatin' like Nostradameus.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (dWwl8)

45 It's weird. As you know, I'm Slightly Psychic.

Why did I read that as "slightly psychotic."
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

there's a difference?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM (8D42x)

46 National Enquirer > National Review

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM (IMeDs)

47 I honestly do not know how they get away with such obvious lies.
Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

that's not a serious question, right? The people running everything are the people being protected by the lies.

treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
for if it doth prosper, none dare call it treason!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM (trdmm)

48 "National Review always claims that the magazine itself doesn't take money from Google. But you know who does? The National Review Institute, which funds the National Review magazine."

See? That right there tells me everything I need to know about the credibility of National Review. You're going to lean on a technicality to support a lie? What will you do for $5?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM (83lwH)

49
Re: Infrastructure story below.

Will the bazillions of dollars Biden will spend tearing interstate highways out of rust-belt cities to restore minority neighborhoods gutted six decades ago count toward the reparations bill?

Posted by: Raspail at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM (Men5k)

50 No guns? *gasp!*

Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (MVjcR)

Just waiting for the gun thread here, boss.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (7bRMQ)

51 41 Look at what we've lost over the last few years.
Posted by: Just Saying at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (7aWUy)

Breitbart.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (H8QX8)

52 We are doing great! Last year we lost $2 million. This year we are on track to lose less than $2 million!

That is like a $20/ subscriber loss.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (psJgU)

53 110,000 subscribers between print and electonic?

How many unique visitors does AoS get in a week?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (psJgU)

i wonder if we beat that in a day...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (8D42x)

54 Why did I read that as "slightly psychotic."
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

there's a difference?
Posted by: SturmToddler at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM

Around here? Nah.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (dkvcO)

55 Read the content. Doh!

Posted by: Boone at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (dBC6W)

56 hoors

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (oEn12)

57
I saw Slightly Psychotic open for Madness at Madstock in '89.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (dWwl8)

58 National Review purged all of their outspoken conservatives. They are now just useful idiots for the Left. They only survive because of funding from the Left which pushes them further away from any conservatism.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 22, 2021 11:14 AM (2DOZq)

59 Iconic and Pure Pottery that a literally who

That's a crockpot theory.

Posted by: shattered at June 22, 2021 11:14 AM (UnQlg)

60 I honestly do not know how they get away with such obvious lies.

........

Who is there to make them accountable?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 22, 2021 11:14 AM (CjFDo)

61 I used to like National Review. No more.

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at June 22, 2021 11:14 AM (cSyAR)

62 34 I plowed Rich Lowerys wife like a fresh spring field

she does pillates you know

Posted by: The Paolo at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (bTQ72)

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You misspelled pirates.

Posted by: THE Rick Wilson, Butt Buccaneer at June 22, 2021 11:14 AM (O4X3m)

63 I honestly do not know how they get away with such obvious lies.
Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

They're not held accountable by ANYONE, that's how. There's NO ramifications for ANYTHING they do, so why not?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

64 Q: How many prostitutes does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: I have no idea. They did hire four NR writers once, but we had to do other stuff.

Posted by: Rich "Big Picture" Lowry: "We'll Be Here All Week. Folks!" at June 22, 2021 11:14 AM (Ndje9)

65 What will you do for $5?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM (83lwH)

Same as you do downtown....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 22, 2021 11:15 AM (7bRMQ)

66 Where the bloody blazes is the guy with the NOOD announcement??

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:15 AM (W+kMI)

67 National Review is a whore and the Left is their pimp.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 22, 2021 11:15 AM (2DOZq)

68 National Review is full of lifelong conservatives. And as lifelong conservatives, they'll have you know....

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:15 AM (psJgU)

69 34 I plowed Rich Lowerys wife like a fresh spring field

she does pillates you know

Posted by: The Paolo

lol

Posted by: ace at June 22, 2021 11:15 AM (0G13K)

70 66 I called "nood" and then went back to say it was about Lowry.

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:15 AM (ONvIw)

71 "my psychic powers, while real, are as weak as ever..."

Clearly, we haven't burned all the witches.

I'll lead a mob out tonight, midnight, I think I know exactly where they will be.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (83lwH)

72 53 110,000 subscribers between print and electonic?

How many unique visitors does AoS get in a week?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (psJgU)

i wonder if we beat that in a day...
Posted by: SturmToddler at June 22, 2021 11:13 AM (8D42x)

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According to May's numbers from similarweb, ace.mu.nu, this site got 1.18 million views with an average of 1.34 pages per visit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (LvTSG)

73 I am skeptical of this claim of increased magazine sales. Print is dead.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (KZzsI)

74 Next, NR will celebrate the return of the renowned, prodigal conservative writer Christopher "I voted for Obama, Hillary and Biden" Buckley to Dad's magazine.

Posted by: Raspail at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (Men5k)

75 Re: Infrastructure story below.

Will the bazillions of dollars Biden will spend tearing interstate highways out of rust-belt cities to restore minority neighborhoods gutted six decades ago count toward the reparations bill?
Posted by: Raspail at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM (Men5k)

if they don't cut access to inner cities, how will democrats keep those icky brown and black people from the neighborhoods, outside of the lawn crew and house cleaners?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (8D42x)

76 27 Hunter is getting 500k for a painting. That's all we need to know about DC integrity.
Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:09 AM (ONvIw)
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Who are the buyers. Russian Oligarchs?

Posted by: WisRich at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (G0vdT)

77 They're not held accountable by ANYONE, that's how. There's NO ramifications for ANYTHING they do, so why not?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

Sort of like DC pols and bureaucrats! And their BLM guerillas

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (ONvIw)

78 There was a Nood.

It's why I made it here before 100.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

79 If psychic powers were real, wouldn't the real psychics be lottery winners?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 22, 2021 11:17 AM (UuD2k)

80 Nood!

Well, not yet, but eventually. But now nobody can complain.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:17 AM (psJgU)

81 So, Lowry resigned from a healthy, thriving, profitable business, that had no real problems at all. Good to know. /sarc

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:17 AM (W+kMI)

82 According to May's numbers from similarweb, ace.mu.nu, this site got 1.18 million views with an average of 1.34 pages per visit.

Yeah I was curious once when I had my blog, how I compared to Ace. I had a big day when a post pulled in like 2k because of an Instalanche.

Ace was averaging over 40k a day back then. I don't know if its gotten more or less. Those of us who post here in the comments are in the very small minority of the huge numbers of people who come here, and not just joe average. Big names and major people come to this site to read it and read comments.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:18 AM (KZzsI)

83 I am skeptical of this claim of increased magazine sales. Print is dead.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (KZzsI)

I've been tellin' ya for quite a while.......

Posted by: Egon Spengler at June 22, 2021 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

84 Is this the start of Lowry being "unpersoned?"

I hope so, because I look forward to the groveling he'll do, trying to win back favor with the people running NR.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 22, 2021 11:18 AM (2SdPm)

85 There's a psychic fortune teller near my work that says, "By appointment only."

Which really casts doubt on her abilities. A real psychic should already know I coming to visit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 22, 2021 11:18 AM (UuD2k)

86 According to May's numbers from similarweb, ace.mu.nu, this site got 1.18 million views with an average of 1.34 pages per visit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (LvTSG)

That is just people hitting refresh so they can first the new post.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (psJgU)

87 What is a national review?

Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (0OP+5)

88 Do my curmudgeon thing and get responses. Excellent! I'm now ready to go to Kroger shopping later this afternoon.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (W+kMI)

89 5 If no one challenges it, is it a lie?
Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:04 AM (ONvIw)

"It's not a lie if *you* believe it" - Some dude from Seinfeld.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (a+Mub)

90 73 I am skeptical of this claim of increased magazine sales. Print is dead.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (KZzsI)

Well Chairman Xi ordered 99,000 copies of it last month.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (trdmm)

91 If psychic powers were real, wouldn't the real psychics be lottery winners?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 22, 2021 11:17 AM (UuD2k)

Well... I would win the lottery, but-

it's a misuse of my psychic powers.

*ahem*

Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (dWwl8)

92 Lowry is basically a mid-to-late 80's YAF'er that moved to DC and never grew up or read another book after sort of skimming through "God and Man at Yale."

Ponnuru is a more original thinker, but other than being seemingly a pretty solid pro-lifer is a standard-issue urban lib posing as a conservative for marketing differentiation purposes.

So, expect even more of "The Conservative Case for [the thing the other parents at my kid's private school implied I needed to support or I could forget about anymore party invites]."

Posted by: Match Checksout at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (dYe5S)

93 What is a national review?
Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (0OP+5)
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A bunch charlatans who claim to promote conservative causes but, in reality, only print that which is approved by their leftist masters.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (2SdPm)

94 willowed:
334 Nood
Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:05 AM (ONvIw)

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (ONvIw)

95 https://tinyurl.com/4ynjcpfb

The above article on the NYC GOP is worth reading. Yes, its NYC, but the GOP is likely shot through with endemic corruption of this sort.

Posted by: Revenant at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (P2+0L)

96 Big names and major people come to this site to read it and read comments.
Any pol running on the right who doesn't at least have a staff member monitoring the site is a fool.

Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (v16oJ)

97 87 What is a national review?
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It's a fakecon never-Trumper netzine that Ace quotes when he needs an opposition POV that isn't CNN or the Times.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (W+kMI)

98 Rich Lowry hooking for hobos under the bridge will be appropriate for his new career path.

He sucks dick by choice, not just for the money.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (XvPQV)

99 53 110,000 subscribers between print and electonic?

How many unique visitors does AoS get in a week?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (psJgU)

i wonder if we beat that in a day...

***

Ace beat that when he wrote about Kaboom cereal.

Posted by: Raspail at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (Men5k)

100 Re: Infrastructure story below.

Will the bazillions of dollars Biden will spend tearing interstate highways out of rust-belt cities to restore minority neighborhoods gutted six decades ago count toward the reparations bill?

Posted by: Raspail at June 22, 2021 11:12 AM (Men5k)

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Neither will the over 30 trillion spent over 55+ years on the "War on Poverty" ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (O4X3m)

101 Total revenue has been up about 20% over the last year, per Lowry, who
cited the company's growth in circulation, podcast and email revenue.
i wonder how the growth in cruise revenue is looking.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (v3pYe)

102 I never liked that pussy Lowry. Every time I saw him on video he looked uncomfortable like he didn't really believe in anything he was supposedly for. Such a beta. Get some one with some balls, not that pot smoking Bloomberg plant Ponnuru. BTW what are the thoughts around Charles CW Cooke? His stuff is pretty good in America's First Freedom, but I don't crossover to NR to read him anymore.

Posted by: Mishdog at June 22, 2021 11:21 AM (cqAUI)

103 1 million visitors? Ace needs to stop punching down at NR.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:21 AM (psJgU)

104 79 If psychic powers were real, wouldn't the real psychics be lottery winners?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 22, 2021 11:17 AM (UuD2k)

no, we don't like to give ourselves away like that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2021 11:21 AM (trdmm)

105 What is a national review?
Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM

A really huge chorus line?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:21 AM (m+jkK)

106 94 willowed:

334 Nood

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:05 AM (ONvIw)

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (ONvIw)
*golfclap*

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (v3pYe)

107 Short Rich Lowry job description: "Your mission is to beach this bloated, fetid, decaying, putrid, Chinese funded NRO whale more slowly".

Posted by: Marcus T at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (rLZe7)

108 If psychic powers were real, wouldn't the real psychics be lottery winners?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 22, 2021 11:17 AM (UuD2k)

You should ask Clyde Bruckman. But no, wait. He's in his final repose.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sportin' a Bowler and a Slayer T-shirt at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (xPJvm)

109 Ace's favorite show is Psyche so he was really trying to put together subtle clues to make his predictions. The problem is he didn't have a Gus.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (2DOZq)

110 New Zoo Review >>> National Review

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (trdmm)

111 I do love how they say revenue is up 20%. But they're still losing money! They're not at break even so they are still racking up debt even with all this cash infusion. Sure sounds like a conservative capitalist organism to me.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (G2zl5)

112
NRs prob is they are a complete bunch of pussys

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (bTQ72)

113 "I can't believe that you've been visiting prostitutes for sex." my wife screamed at me. "I'm really disappointed."

"You can hardly blame me," I answered. "It's not like I was getting any from you."

"Well, that's your own fault," she replied. "You never told me Google was willing to pay us both."

#DefenestrateNow!

Posted by: Rich "Big Picture" Lowry: "We'll Be Here All Week. Folks!" at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (Ndje9)

114 "I am skeptical of this claim of increased magazine sales. Print is dead."

It's the Ryan Howard Business Model.

https://tinyurl.com/x8exrub2

The problem with Grifters is they grift where they eat. And corruption is like Raistlin's Avatar, a snake devouring it's own tail.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (83lwH)

115 Google was one of several corporate sponsors of the National Review Institute's William F. Buckley Prize Dinner in 2018

The Powers are arrayed against us, we must "endeavor to persevere".

Posted by: Braenyard at June 22, 2021 11:22 AM (jg5Rp)

116 Rich Lowry hooking for hobos under the bridge will be appropriate for his new career path.

Not for long........

Posted by: The Biden Infrastructure Plan at June 22, 2021 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

117 Was NR ever really "Conservative"? or just Chamber of Commerce?

Posted by: setnaffa at June 22, 2021 11:23 AM (lrLl2)

118 If psychic powers were real, wouldn't the real psychics be lottery winners?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 22, 2021 11:17 AM (UuD2k)

Maybe psychic powers are limited by direct financial gain.

Physics has laws. Maybe psychic powers have laws too.

Like if you try to count and study them they go away. Sort of like the reverse of quantum particles.

Posted by: ... at June 22, 2021 11:23 AM (Xy8o7)

119 96 Big names and major people come to this site to read it and read comments.
Any pol running on the right who doesn't at least have a staff member monitoring the site is a fool.
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Well, there goes about half of the Ohio GOPe....

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:23 AM (W+kMI)

120 NR doesn't give money to prostitutes. NR just pays their rent.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 22, 2021 11:23 AM (iFTx/)

121
President Joe Biden will give a speech later this week in an effort to get ahead of an impending summer of violent crime.
"The reason is that there's been actually a rise in crime over the last five years, but really the last 18 months. And so, it's an opportunity for the President to speak to what he's going to do to help address that. And as we've seen around the country, it is a concern of many Americans, Republicans but also Democrats too, not necessarily through a partisan lens. It was something the President felt was appropriate to speak to and tell the American people what he's doing to help address," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Monday.

Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2021 11:23 AM (RHGPo)

122 I suspect NR magazine sales are sort of like sales from DC "book deals"

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:24 AM (ONvIw)

123 If National Review is becoming more lefty/socialist, wouldn't it be prudent to rename themselves National Socialist Review?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 22, 2021 11:24 AM (SchxB)

124 >>>114 "I am skeptical of this claim of increased magazine sales. Print is dead."

It's the Ryan Howard Business Model.

...

a friend speculated that the increase in digital subscriptions just means people cancelled their print subscriptions in favor of the cheaper NRPlus.

I don't know if NRPlus contains all the content of the magazine, though. Or just Kevin Williamson's third-tier rants.

Posted by: ace at June 22, 2021 11:24 AM (0G13K)

125 If psychic powers were real, one of the big astrologers for the Nazis would have known not to take a certain car ride into the forest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:24 AM (R8ZvK)

126 It's a fakecon never-Trumper netzine that Ace quotes when he needs an opposition POV that isn't CNN or the Times.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:20 AM (W+kMI)

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Ace has a fevah ... and the only cure is MOAR death knell of the fake conservative thot leaders.

Posted by: ShainS at June 22, 2021 11:24 AM (O4X3m)

127 Its not impossible that National Review has suggested to donors that they subscribe instead of or additional to just sending money. That would pump numbers up

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:24 AM (KZzsI)

128 Wasn't Goldberg the guy putting his wife up to get pumped by bulls from foreign, exotic and erotic enclaves? That takes more that just a handful of cabbage.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 22, 2021 11:25 AM (HnNKD)

129 86 According to May's numbers from similarweb, ace.mu.nu, this site got 1.18 million views with an average of 1.34 pages per visit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (LvTSG)

That is just people hitting refresh so they can first the new post.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:19 AM (psJgU)

=========

*nods sagaciously*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:25 AM (LvTSG)

130 Ordinary American @ 51- Yeah conservative voices are being killed off it seems, although some die of natural causes such as Saint Rush Of Limbaugh.

Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2021 11:25 AM (0OP+5)

131 Big names and major people come to this site to read it and read comments.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:18 AM (KZzsI)

***

Breitbart was a regular visitor

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 22, 2021 11:25 AM (flINI)

132 Was NR ever really "Conservative"? or just Chamber of Commerce?
Posted by: setnaffa at June 22, 2021 11:23 AM

They used to fake it well 20 years ago. Now, masks are off, and all we see is a bunch of CoCs.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:25 AM (m+jkK)

133 In my 40 years working in the private sector (Hi Tech) the firing and termination of a high profile executive is always preceded by a promotion to Director, Special Projects.

Posted by: steve walsh at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (PBCuZ)

134 If the GOP staff read this site and the comments they would realize they are assholes and immediately stop. The money is in being a sycophant's, not telling your boss that everyone thinks he sucks.

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (ONvIw)

135 Passing govt money back and forth between non-profits is how much of the useless elite stays employed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (UuD2k)

136 I believe NR is relatively flush with cash right now. It takes many a year for normal people to figure things out, so lots of older, lesser engaged conservatives probably bought the "We're fighting for you against the Dems" pitch. Tack that on top of the Big Tech payoffs (BTW: you know, you can overpay for ad space and it doesn't have to be called a corporate donation if you don't make it too obvious).

Posted by: Match Checksout at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (dYe5S)

137 110 New Zoo Review >>> National Review
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Whoa dude, way to ride the wayback machine on that one. And, well, I agree. The witty and insightful writing and lack of TDS shrieking was better than NR.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (W+kMI)

138 According to May's numbers from similarweb, ace.mu.nu, this site got 1.18 million views with an average of 1.34 pages per visit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:16 AM (LvTSG)

And that's just the numbers for Ace's Movie Reviews.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (dWwl8)

139 If National Review is becoming more lefty/socialist, wouldn't it be prudent to rename themselves National Socialist Review?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 22, 2021 11:24 AM (SchxB)

Good one.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (AiZBA)

140 It always felt to me that when Rush would mention Lowry it wasn't favorably, or at least he didn't seem to like the guy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (KZzsI)

141 133 In my 40 years working in the private sector (Hi Tech) the firing and termination of a high profile executive is always preceded by a promotion to Director, Special Projects.
Posted by: steve walsh at June 22, 2021 11:26 AM (PBCuZ)

Ah yes... the Special projects title... where there is still too much time on the contract to send you home, but nothing for you to do here...

Posted by: Inogame at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (53oGX)

142 95 Revenant,
Yes, GOPe official party organization is that way. Key is same as what the leftists did--go outside the party with your local political organizations and be ruthless about expelling people that are time wasters, shills, plants, and grifters.

Party organizations are like the plot for the Producers--they are composed of grifters that aim to line their own pockets and those of their friends and winning and losing campaigns is beside the point. Get a copy of Heinlein's Take Back Your Government on how local politics can be cleaned up which then affects the state and national level. You do not need the money for the glossy ads if you have a true grassroots political organization.

Posted by: whig at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (pO7gM)

143 President Joe Biden will give a speech later this week in an effort to get ahead of an impending summer of violent crime.

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"It's Trump's fault! Next?"

Posted by: ShainS at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (O4X3m)

144 124 a friend speculated that the increase in digital subscriptions just means people cancelled their print subscriptions in favor of the cheaper NRPlus.

I don't know if NRPlus contains all the content of the magazine, though. Or just Kevin Williamson's third-tier rants.
Posted by: ace at June 22, 2021 11:24 AM (0G13K)

========

My dad keeps re-upping my magazine subscription every Christmas because it's an easy gift he doesn't need to think about. I need to figure out how to tell him to stop without revealing that I haven't cracked one open in like 2 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

145 Big names and major people come to this site to read it and read comments.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:18 AM (KZzsI)

Damned skippy!
We are all here aren't we?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (axyOa)

146 National Review would boost their numbers if they were a thong leader.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (R8ZvK)

147 interesting article on FBI corruption from decades ago, eventually uncovered by John Durham (of all people). The DOJ/FBI criminal cabal has been a bad place for a long time.

https://tinyurl.com/533kyw5y

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (Fj6k3)

148 cool
or
the end is near ??

Watch with mother! Mom, 44, and daughter, 26, are so close they view each other's SEX TAPES to swap tips on positions and lingerie

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (bTQ72)

149 Was NR ever really "Conservative"? or just Chamber of Commerce?

Pretty safe bet that all things Big Media are aligned with the Ruling Class.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (9LYIb)

150 117 Was NR ever really "Conservative"? or just Chamber of Commerce?
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Good question, as apparently a number of their contributors have perpetually confused the terms.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (W+kMI)

151 146 National Review would boost their numbers if they were a thong leader.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (R8ZvK)

Thongs, NR writers...pass the brain bleach, please.

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (ONvIw)

152 One way to recognize a leftist, always and everywhere they are deceptive.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2021 11:29 AM (r+sAi)

153 Ah yes... the Special projects title... where there is still too much
time on the contract to send you home, but nothing for you to do here...
It's a specialty of school administrations. Were you, a teacher, caught flashing little kids while speedballing? No worries! We'll transfer you to headquarters for unspecified duties.

Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 11:29 AM (v16oJ)

154 152 One way to recognize a leftist, always and everywhere they are deceptive.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2021 11:29 AM (r+sAi)

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That's just what a deceptive leftist trying to ingratiate xerself into our midst would say...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

155 Venezuela - F
Canada - B-
France - C+
Phillipines - D
USA - ~~A++~~ C-

...

Posted by: What "The National Review" Should Be at June 22, 2021 11:29 AM (dWwl8)

156 I also hear they will be having Jonah Goldberg start a newsletter providing diet advice. It's called "How to Look Like a Hefty Bag Filled with Cow Tallow". But that may just be a working title.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 22, 2021 11:30 AM (rLZe7)

157 Get a copy of Heinlein's Take Back Your Government on how local politics can be cleaned up which then affects the state and national level. You do not need the money for the glossy ads if you have a true grassroots political organization.
Posted by: whig at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (pO7gM)
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Thanks; I will look into this.

Posted by: Revenant at June 22, 2021 11:30 AM (P2+0L)

158 My favorite flash of brilliance from Ramesh Ponnuru was back in the W administration when the idea of doing an end-run around the filibuster for judicial appointments came up. Some one in the The Corner made the argument that the Constitution doesn't give the Senate the power to place any requirement greater than a majority vote on a President's appointment. Ponnuru's response: "Well, it doesn't say they can't."

As Goldberg liked to say all the time: "Ponnuru for SCOTUS!" The Lowry legacy is in good hands.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at June 22, 2021 11:30 AM (VbI7r)

159 143 President Joe Biden will give a speech later this week in an effort to get ahead of an impending summer of violent crime.

----

"It's Trump's fault! Next?"

GUNS

Posted by: GUNS are always to blame! at June 22, 2021 11:31 AM (Zmnko)

160 Who runs National Review? Is it from the estate of William F Buckley?

Really sad to see institutions I once trusted go this direction, a big reason why I became a conservative was reading things like National Review way back when.

I'm not a Trump cultist, I think the guy has issues, but these people are willing to just throw their lot in with the left all over "manners". They obviously have no core, this is all a game to them.

Posted by: Blago at June 22, 2021 11:31 AM (PwNLq)

161 Obviously there is no way the tech giants would prop up NR through fake subscriptions. No way at all.

Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at June 22, 2021 11:31 AM (+9Rfr)

162 147 interesting article on FBI corruption from decades ago, eventually uncovered by John Durham (of all people). The DOJ/FBI criminal cabal has been a bad place for a long time.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (Fj6k3)

But is Durham languidly searching for the truth, or accepting "generational wealth" as he ages.
Ok, I'll stall like hell and keep it up til I'm dead...pay me"

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:31 AM (ONvIw)

163 from UK dailymail

pics look like dead girl

Sex DOLL on the beach: Rescue team 'save' inflatable woman found floating in Japanese harbour after it's mistaken for a drowning woman

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 22, 2021 11:33 AM (bTQ72)

164 I sort of miss ole Mary Cloggenstein.

I think I know where she went,

Decolonize Burlington in Vermont for Americans.

https://tinyurl.com/2df2wucb

They have a whopping 31 Followers on Facebook!!

Posted by: rd at June 22, 2021 11:33 AM (Z32m1)

165 146 National Review would boost their numbers if they were a thong leader.
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Y'know Anna, "thong" and "national review" are two concepts I try not to combine in my head.

BTW I nominate Nagatoro-kohai as Catgirl of the Year.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:33 AM (W+kMI)

166 National Review, it as they are affectionate known, "Shit Google wants You to Believe is Xonservative".

Posted by: Marcus T at June 22, 2021 11:33 AM (rLZe7)

167 I gotta admit, if they wanted to make things worse at NR, replacing Lowry with Pon-Farru is an excellent start. Bill Kristol might've been worse. Might.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 22, 2021 11:33 AM (ZGrMX)

168 NR is supported by Google's pocket change.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 22, 2021 11:34 AM (2SdPm)

169 Sex DOLL on the beach: Rescue team 'save' inflatable woman found floating in Japanese harbour after it's mistaken for a drowning woman
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 22, 2021 11:33 AM (bTQ72)

10 minutes later she suffered a fate worse than death.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2021 11:34 AM (trdmm)

170 Rescue team has a new practice dummy..

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:34 AM (R8ZvK)

171 I wouldn't read NRO if they put a naked, dancing Alessandro Ambrosio on the cover.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 22, 2021 11:35 AM (rLZe7)

172 from UK dailymail

pics look like dead girl

Sex DOLL on the beach: Rescue team 'save' inflatable woman found floating in Japanese harbour after it's mistaken for a drowning woman
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 22, 2021 11:33 AM

Hey, that was probably some Japanese soiboi's girlfriend!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:36 AM (m+jkK)

173 Rescue team has a new practice dummy

That's what I was thinking, too. Now they can use her for all kinds of practice scenarios: stuck in the car, alligator grabbed someone, burning building, etc. Like the test dummy on Mythbusters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:36 AM (KZzsI)

174 Oh... We're not Conservative Leaders, we're Conservative Monitors. We'll alert someone if we see something Conservative

Posted by: THE National Review at June 22, 2021 11:36 AM (flINI)

175 So now I will get weekly spam from Ramesh instead of Rich. Cool. I suspect it reads identically. I doubt the Peter Principling the copywriter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 22, 2021 11:37 AM (Jsjd7)

176 Goldberg has a wife or a husband?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 22, 2021 11:37 AM (jg5Rp)

177 Ramesh Ponnuru. This name is on my Bucket List for some reason I've now forgotten. Did he write a Bitter/Clinger hit piece on us or something?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:37 AM (83lwH)

178 I wouldn't read NRO if they put a naked, dancing Alessandro Ambrosio on the cover.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 22, 2021 11:35 AM (rLZe7)

Especially since she's naked elsewhere on the internets.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)

179 This busty, bootylicious dame *still* isn't interested in Rich Lowry, even with his fancy new "long-term initiative" hat:
https://is.gd/PRMVDF

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 22, 2021 11:38 AM (Jsjd7)

180 Sidebar: The snippet of the sea lions gulping the fish in the net -- where was this? Off northern California?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (/XOcP)

True Fact: Fishermen everywhere love sea lions.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at June 22, 2021 11:38 AM (AiZBA)

181 148 cool
or
the end is near ??

Watch with mother! Mom, 44, and daughter, 26, are so close they view each other's SEX TAPES to swap tips on positions and lingerie
=======
Back before he was Alexander VI, Cardinal Borgia of Spain had a mother and daughter (both noted blonde beauties) in succession as mistresses. Daughter was the mother of his three offspring.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:38 AM (W+kMI)

182 I wouldn't read NRO if they put a naked, dancing Alessandro Ambrosio on the cover.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 22, 2021 11:35 AM (rLZe7)

Especially since she's naked elsewhere on the internets.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:37 AM

AoSHQ....News you can use.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:38 AM (m+jkK)

183 Miss Ambrosio has a very aggressive bone structure

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:38 AM (KZzsI)

184 "Hey, that was probably some Japanese soiboi's girlfriend!"

Heh. I now have an image of a guy trying to watch/not watch her get rescued.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:39 AM (83lwH)

185 Never bothered to watch Nagatoro set about invading and conquering that boy's personal space.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:39 AM (R8ZvK)

186 At risk of irritating our gracious host, i take exception to referring to Fauci as a "Saint". All saints, as mere humans, occasionally erred. As we all know, Fauci, as the living embodiment of Science, is unerring.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 22, 2021 11:39 AM (uCu+5)

187 40 15 ...Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 22, 2021 11:07 AM (8C7+r)
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No pants?
Posted by: ShainS at June 22, 2021 11:11 AM (O4X3m)
Hah!
"Are you Moron xxxxx?"
"Well, when you put it that way...."

It's remote and bourbon involved (at least on my end). No cams, so pants are unknown.

@weasel: Guns involved indirectly, meaning certain applications of them.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 22, 2021 11:39 AM (8C7+r)

188 OT, but airlines are asking the FAA and Congress to "do something" about angry passengers. They want stiffer criminal penalties. 0
"No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing", says CNBC.

Big mystery what the problem is indeed, is that right Flight Attendant Karen?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2021 11:40 AM (Fj6k3)

189 180 True Fact: Fishermen everywhere love sea lions.
because they're magically delicious?

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 22, 2021 11:40 AM (v3pYe)

190 I have an idea for a future thread that contains a "Who dis?".

Display pictures of editors/writers/'opinion shapers' of the various NeverTrump rags.

I'd wager 90% of the Horde wouldn't recognize any of them.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2021 11:40 AM (Rvt88)

191 Nothing says "bare-knuckled brawler for freedom" like National Review's cruise ship vacations.

The closest the Founding Fathers came to that, was George Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware River.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 22, 2021 11:40 AM (dv18C)

192 Indiana "residents" suing the governor to keep covid unemployment flowing.
"Our community is dealing with enough stress and trauma," said Rev. David Greene, president of the Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis and a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the state along with residents represented by the Indiana Legal Services nonprofit law firm which represents low-income residents.

Hmmm, if only the reverend knew of local organizations geared toward charity and helping people in need.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:41 AM (psJgU)

193 Ramesh Ponnuru. This name is on my Bucket List for some reason I've now forgotten. Did he write a Bitter/Clinger hit piece on us or something?
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:37 AM (83lwH)

It was Kevin Williamson. Same kind of asshole, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 22, 2021 11:41 AM (g/rac)

194 The left has hated NR since the days of WFB. NR played the role of useful idiots during the Trump era. Trump exited with 95% republican support. NR is making money? Pull the other one, it plays jingle bells.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 22, 2021 11:41 AM (kTF2Z)

195 A wealthy liberal town I lived near had fought tooth and nail against changing the local arterial road into a highway. Instead of 65 MPH with on/off ramps they just kept putting more stop lights until the nominal 40 MPH was really10 MPH and 0 at rush hour.
And they were so so happy. Until GPS became common and suddenly all their "local" roads were full of traffic all day long.

They tried everything they could to keep the working people from driving through their town but they did such a "good" job on the main road that they couldn't actually make their local roads bad enough.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 22, 2021 11:41 AM (DpkTQ)

196 I'd wager 90% of the Horde wouldn't recognize any of them.

Bill Kristol is the fat one
and Johana Goldberg is the fat one with the gray beard

right?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 22, 2021 11:41 AM (bTQ72)

197 Canada is about to legislate the outlawing of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press. They passed the legislation in the middle of the night.

https://tinyurl.com/erdftzb6

"It is unlikely to pass the Senate according to experts."
If so, then why did they suddenly add all the anti-freedom amendments, deny debate, and pass it in the middle of the night?

Posted by: rd at June 22, 2021 11:41 AM (Z32m1)

198 188 OT, but airlines are asking the FAA and Congress to "do something" about
angry passengers. They want stiffer criminal penalties. 0
"No one
can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but
"most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing",
says CNBC.

Big mystery what the problem is indeed, is that right Flight Attendant Karen?
ya know, passengers were anesthetized as they were boarding, they wouldn't need so much room; more could be crammed into each plane.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, idea man at June 22, 2021 11:42 AM (v3pYe)

199 The DOJ/FBI criminal cabal has been a bad place for a long time.

https://tinyurl.com/533kyw5y
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (Fj6k3
---------

Really?

Posted by: Randy Weaver at June 22, 2021 11:42 AM (jg5Rp)

200 Billi Kristol would be the one guarding the endless chocolate fountain on the Lipo Deck.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:43 AM (R8ZvK)

201 185 Never bothered to watch Nagatoro set about invading and conquering that boy's personal space.
=====
You definitely should make some time! The characters have Takahashi-levels of facial expressions, and unlike harem stories or the average school story Nagatoro and her Paisen have real character and relationship growth. and she makes a great catgirl.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:43 AM (W+kMI)

202 "No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing", says CNBC.

Big mystery what the problem is indeed, is that right Flight Attendant Karen?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2021 11:40 AM (Fj6k3)

I suppose treating passengers like human beings rather than cattle is out of the question.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 22, 2021 11:43 AM (trdmm)

203 "No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing", says CNBC.

Yeah, that's a real puzzler

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:44 AM (KZzsI)

204 I've read Ponuru a little in the past without realizing he was compromised. One of the many things I appreciate about Ace of Spades is the eye-opening posts that connect the dots of these characters posing as conservatives.

Posted by: Coki at June 22, 2021 11:44 AM (aHf5T)

205 "No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses
but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask
wearing", says CNBC.
It's a mystery. Perhaps the fact that sardines say "nah, bruh, I need some personal space" might be involved.

Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 11:44 AM (v16oJ)

206 Billi Kristol would be the one guarding the endless chocolate fountain on the Lipo Deck.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:43 AM (R8ZvK)

Ain't no one on that cruise getting lipo.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

207 Note they mean NRPlus. This is not a big deal as it seems, as NRPlus only started in 2018. When you start from zero you have room for growth.
Tractor production has risen 1525%, comrades, while the capitalist pigs at John Deere have only risen production by 12.6% in the same period!

Posted by: comrade ponnuru at June 22, 2021 11:44 AM (UHVv4)

208 ya know, passengers were anesthetized as they were boarding, they wouldn't need so much room; more could be crammed into each plane.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, idea man

Ain't gettin' on no plane!

Posted by: B.A. Barracus at June 22, 2021 11:44 AM (OssQ4)

209 It sort of is perfect that a corporatist flunkie like Lowry is being replaced by an Indian.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 22, 2021 11:44 AM (A+FdC)

210 "No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing", says CNBC.

As they yell "aloha snackbar" before self-detonating......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

211 Posted by: rd at June 22, 2021 11:33 AM (Z32m1)

hahahah

A national boycott of Ben and Jerry's by their core fanbase. Couldn't have happened to a better pair of assholes.

hahahaha

I love transnational progressive purity death spirals.

Posted by: McLurkerson at June 22, 2021 11:45 AM (wNDOJ)

212 Big mystery what the problem is indeed, is that right Flight Attendant Karen?
ya know, passengers were anesthetized as they were boarding, they wouldn't need so much room; more could be crammed into each plane.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, idea man at June 22, 2021 11:42 AM (v3pYe)

and they can then die peacefully in their sleep.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 22, 2021 11:45 AM (yQpMk)

213 ya know, passengers were anesthetized as they were boarding, they wouldn't need so much room; more could be crammed into each plane.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, idea man at June 22, 2021 11:42 AM (v3pYe)

But not as much fun....

Posted by: RUUUUBBBY ROD! at June 22, 2021 11:45 AM (oHd/0)

214 They have to pass the anti freedom of the press bill to see what is in the anti freedom of press bill

*passes

Ok, can we see what is in it now?

Nope. Illegal to print it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:46 AM (psJgU)

215 Wait, I thought Jonah Muffintop was out at NR awhile back. He's back, or did I have that wrong?

Posted by: McLurkerson at June 22, 2021 11:46 AM (wNDOJ)

216
"No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing", says CNBC.

It'll get better. American Airlines is cancelling flights due to a "lack of staff" to accommodate.

LOLGF, American.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

217 Rev. David Greene, president of the Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis
-

and the good reverend has sensitive ears so don't put any change in those collection plates

Posted by: Braenyard at June 22, 2021 11:46 AM (jg5Rp)

218 The DOJ/FBI criminal cabal has been a bad place for a long time.

https://tinyurl.com/533kyw5y
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (Fj6k3
---------

Really?

Posted by: Randy Weaver at June 22, 2021 11:42 AM

True story.

Posted by: Zombie Whitey Bulger at June 22, 2021 11:46 AM (m+jkK)

219 It was Kevin Williamson. Same kind of asshole, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 22, 2021 11:41 AM (g/rac)

====

It took a while, but Kevin Williamson finally crashed and burned. In my mind, he never recovered, nor should he, for all the mud he threw.

Posted by: Coki at June 22, 2021 11:47 AM (aHf5T)

220 If the pilots run the cabin altitude up to about 25,000 ft, the passengers would be much more docile and compliant.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:47 AM (psJgU)

221 Bill Kristol is the one with the shotgun blast scars all over his face... on account of him shooting himself in the face, repeatedly, over the last 5 years.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 22, 2021 11:47 AM (flINI)

222 ya know, passengers were anesthetized as they were boarding, they wouldn't need so much room; more could be crammed into each plane.

Yeah, stack them up like cordwood, you could cram a good twice as many passengers. Of course they would increase weight in the plane, so you'd have to toss some of their luggage out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:47 AM (KZzsI)

223 Indiana "residents" suing the governor to keep covid unemployment flowing.
"Our community is dealing with enough stress and trauma," said Rev. David Greene, president of the Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis and a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the state along with residents represented by the Indiana Legal Services nonprofit law firm which represents low-income residents.
======

He sounds....concerned.

Maybe his true god, Satan, will help him out.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 22, 2021 11:47 AM (IytoW)

224 Dear Rev. Greene,

Your concern is noted, now go do something.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:48 AM (R8ZvK)

225 National Review has roughly 110,000 subscribers, about half of which are digital.

***

And Jericho Green has a YouTube channel with 294,000 YouTube subscribers where he does political commentary while riding around in his car with sunglasses on.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 22, 2021 11:48 AM (c9WaF)

226 Whenever I see "WFB", I think "Warner Fucking Brothers".

Posted by: andycanuck at June 22, 2021 11:48 AM (UHVv4)

227 "No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at
stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required
mask wearing", says CNBC.
I'll make it easy for airlines management. Fly cross country, incognito, in coach. You're welcome.

Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 11:48 AM (v16oJ)

228 "No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing", says CNBC.

So, then, we can point to a reason. How much of a smoothbrain do you have to be to be able to write that sentence but still be unable to connect the dots? I'm guessing it's just got to be an unwillingness to connect the dots, but I don't want to wander out on a limb by underestimating the stupidity of journalists either.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 22, 2021 11:49 AM (QU5/8)

229 It took a while, but Kevin Williamson finally crashed and burned. In my mind, he never recovered, nor should he, for all the mud he threw.

Posted by: Coki at June 22, 2021 11:47 AM (aHf5T)

__________

The daddy issues always win in the end.

Posted by: McLurkerson at June 22, 2021 11:49 AM (wNDOJ)

230 "Fauci, as the living embodiment of Science"

In D&D we call them Aspects. He is the earthly personification of Science, sent to lead us into the Light.

I was astonished to hear him claim that "attacks on me are attacks on Science". He shouldn't be allowed to call himself a scientist.

But that's where we are now, I guess. Probably the cancer of Warming Alarmists spreading to infect the other sciences, when Science should have corrected them instead. Why is everything falling so easily?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:49 AM (83lwH)

231 I have it on excellent authority from a dear friend who is a well respected 'former' NR writer, that Ponnuru is such a snake that he makes Richard Blumenthal look warm and cuddly.

Posted by: Tom at June 22, 2021 11:49 AM (xUK01)

232 221 Bill Kristol is the one with the shotgun blast scars all over his face... on account of him shooting himself in the face, repeatedly, over the last 5 years.

***

In all fairness, he's been getting shot in the face a lot longer than five years...

Posted by: Azathoth at June 22, 2021 11:50 AM (c9WaF)

233 Of course they would increase weight in the plane, so you'd have to toss some of their luggage out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 22, 2021 11:47 AM (KZzsI)

***

We're on it!

Posted by: Union Baggage Handlers, Taking Care of Your Bags at June 22, 2021 11:50 AM (flINI)

234 199 The DOJ/FBI criminal cabal has been a bad place for a long time.

https://tinyurl.com/533kyw5y
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2021 11:28 AM (Fj6k3
---------
Really?
========
Aye, Randy Weaver would agree, most likely. But like Hannity for a long time I disputed the corruption and legal tyranny, saying the majority of the federal agents were good people. It's 2021 and I know better.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:50 AM (W+kMI)

235 One way to recognize a leftist, always and everywhere they are deceptive.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2021 11:29 AM (r+sAi)
Cognitive Dissonance
Ends Justify the Means
Projection
Inability to make logical comparisons
Cannot determine cause and effect
Narcissistic
History only starts yesterday
Presentism ( cognitive dissonance with History trait above)
Congenital liars ( deceptive)
Hypocrisy

Posted by: Just a side note at June 22, 2021 11:50 AM (2DOZq)

236 Rev. David Greene, president of the Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis and a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the state along with residents represented by the Indiana Legal Services nonprofit law firm which represents low-income residents.
======

He sounds....concerned.

Maybe his true god, Satan, will help him out.
Posted by: bicentennialguy

Maybe if they went to work, they could raise those incomes?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (rmsWT)

237 Bill Kristol is the one with the shotgun blast scars all over his face... on account of him shooting himself in the face, repeatedly, over the last 5 years.

***

In all fairness, he's been getting shot in the face a lot longer than five years...
Posted by: Azathoth at June 22, 2021 11:50 AM

So, too, has the Mrs. Kristol, IYKWTPM....

Posted by: Paolo at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (m+jkK)

238 says CNBC.

But they can see a connection between a decrease in cow farts and a downturn in the market.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (psJgU)

239 Fauci, as the living embodiment of Science"

In D&D we call them Aspects. He is the earthly personification of Science, sent to lead us into the Light.

I was astonished to hear him claim that "attacks on me are attacks on Science". He shouldn't be allowed to call himself a scientist.
====

I doubt the rotten little hack bastard could explain the scientific method.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (IytoW)

240 I'd wager 90% of the Horde wouldn't recognize any of them.

Bill Kristol is the fat one

and Johana Goldberg is the fat one with the gray beard

right?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 22, 2021 11:41 AM (bTQ72)
==================
I only recognize their wives

Posted by: Average Virginia Hobo at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (Fj6k3)

241 I'm pretty sure Book of Revelation mentions this as a sign of the end times.

Backstreet Boys members AJ McLean and Nick Carter partnered up with NSYNC's Joey Fatone and Lance Bass to create the ultimate boy-band: "Back-Sync."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (d9FiS)

242 "I love transnational progressive purity death spirals."

Everyone thinks THEY will survive the 2nd Purge.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (83lwH)

243 221 Bill Kristol is the one with the shotgun blast scars all over his face... on account of him shooting himself in the face, repeatedly, over the last 5 years.

***

In all fairness, he's been getting shot in the face a lot longer than five years...
Posted by: Azathoth at June 22, 2021 11:50 AM (c9WaF)

***

Boy howdy...

Posted by: Peter North at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (flINI)

244 >>>I was astonished to hear him claim that "attacks on me are attacks on Science". He shouldn't be allowed to call himself a scientist.
------------

Well, he does have a lab coat.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (jg5Rp)

245
Maybe if they went to work, they could raise those incomes?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (rmsWT)

Abandon all hope ye who interject logic here......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

246
Ramesh Ponuru

Sundar Pichai

I'm not supposed to say that I see a pattern.

I see a pattern.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (T2IBa)

247
Everyone thinks THEY will survive the 2nd Purge.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (83lwH)

You got the list?

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (ONvIw)

248 I doubt the rotten little hack bastard could explain the scientific method.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (IytoW)

Step 1, Fuck You
Step 2, Pay Me

Posted by: Big T at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (6FeV1)

249
Backstreet Boys members AJ McLean and Nick Carter partnered up with NSYNC's Joey Fatone and Lance Bass to create the ultimate boy-band: "Back-Sync."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (d9FiS)

Their first single will be titled "Space Docking."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

250 Cartoon shot at Whitehouse and Forbes...

https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/
1407353061090205702

Posted by: andycanuck at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (UHVv4)

251 248 I doubt the rotten little hack bastard could explain the scientific method.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (IytoW)

Step 1, Fuck You
Step 2, Pay Me
Posted by: Big T at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (6FeV1)

========

*considers modern state of science*
*nods sagaciously*
Checks out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (LvTSG)

252 216
"No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing", says CNBC.

It'll get better. American Airlines is cancelling flights due to a "lack of staff" to accommodate.

LOLGF, American.......
========
I'm cat-sitting for the parents of a dear departed friend who chose to drive to Oregon and Minnesota for a vacation instead of flying. I wonder how many other people are doing the same, regardless of the price of gas?

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (W+kMI)

253 Annnnd, the "Bee" does it again:
"NFL player admits he is gay. Switching over to soccer."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (7Fj9P)

254 Everyone thinks THEY will survive the 2nd Purge.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (83lwH)

You got the list?
Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM

I'd rest easier if I saw AtC's List first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:54 AM (m+jkK)

255 241 I'm pretty sure Book of Revelation mentions this as a sign of the end times.

Backstreet Boys members AJ McLean and Nick Carter partnered up with NSYNC's Joey Fatone and Lance Bass to create the ultimate boy-band: "Back-Sync."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (d9FiS)

----

You hear George Soros when you play their songs backwards.

Posted by: ShainS at June 22, 2021 11:54 AM (O4X3m)

256
I'd rest easier if I saw AtC's List first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:54 AM (m+jkK)

You misspelled 'tits.'

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

257 >>I plowed Rich Lowry's wife like a fresh spring field
she does pilates you know

WIFE?

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 22, 2021 11:54 AM (bDqIh)

258 I remember Joy Behar bullying Lowry into saying that Big Mike was gorgeous

Posted by: Avi at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (3uGRO)

259 Their first single will be titled "Space Docking."
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

Ew.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (Ez6QX)

260 List for Alextopia?

Think you getting a blanket huh?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (R8ZvK)

261 Annnnd, the "Bee" does it again:
"NFL player admits he is gay. Switching over to soccer."
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (7Fj9P)

That's their best one yet. Holy cow that is great. Can't believe they went there.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (2DOZq)

262 Their first single will be titled "Space Docking."
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

National Review board members made their own boy band super group called "N'Boys".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (6FeV1)

263 Well, he does have a lab coat.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (jg5Rp)

Obama handed those out a lovely parting gifts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (yrol0)

264 I just read that one of America's out and proud LGBTBMX transathletes plans to burn his country's flag after beating the world's female athletes at the Olympics. I wish we still had Donald Trump in the White House, so he could tell Japan we would revoke his passport and leave him stranded in Japan if this happened. I could foresee all sorts of difficulties in their entry Visa paperwork after that.

Posted by: Downcast at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (wWUb3)

265 I'd rest easier if I saw AtC's List first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:54 AM (m+jkK)

You misspelled 'tits.'
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:54 AM

A man's gotta know his limitations.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (m+jkK)

266
Ew.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (Ez6QX)

Wish I could apologize, but.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

267 Ahoy! In our next virtual Lido Deck panel discussion, we will examine "If you don't like the current Nood situation, you could post one yourself."

Posted by: Cap'n Bill at June 22, 2021 11:56 AM (DMUuz)

268 Fauci, as the living embodiment of Science"

-
Fauci is the embodiment of credentialism. He's credentialed but not qualified like all the political/television experts. If the public ever figures out that their credentials are meaningless, the jig is up. In that sense, Fauci is science.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 22, 2021 11:56 AM (d9FiS)

269 Maybe if they went to work, they could raise those incomes?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 22, 2021 11:51 AM (rmsWT)

No. They can't. They are all special cases where they WANT to work, but, you know, the COVID and their special circumstances prevent them from working. Their only means of survival is the extra federal dole.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (psJgU)

270 232 221 Bill Kristol is the one with the shotgun blast scars all over his face... on account of him shooting himself in the face, repeatedly, over the last 5 years.

***

In all fairness, he's been getting shot in the face a lot longer than five years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAtiK8w45Ag

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (W+kMI)

271 I wonder how many other people are doing the same, regardless of the price of gas?
Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:53 AM

Hell, I'm making the NoVaMoMe a road trip. Screw flying.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (m+jkK)

272 Oooh, latest panic porn:

Two Americas: Why some states are far more vulnerable to the delta variant

Health experts warn that the particularly contagious delta variant may soon become the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the United States and could create "two Americas" - comparatively safe areas with high vaccination rates, and other areas with low vaccination rates and the potential for Covid-19 surges.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (IytoW)

273 So we've gone from E Pluribus Unum to E Pluribus Pluribus.

Got it. Strength in Diversity and all that.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (axyOa)

274 264 I just read that one of America's out and proud LGBTBMX transathletes plans to burn his country's flag after beating the world's female athletes at the Olympics. I wish we still had Donald Trump in the White House, so he could tell Japan we would revoke his passport and leave him stranded in Japan if this happened. I could foresee all sorts of difficulties in their entry Visa paperwork after that.
Posted by: Downcast at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (wWUb3)

==========

I really hope the dude wins and does it.

Not enough people realize that the left outright hates America. It'll be a great visual that cuts through a lot of bullshit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (LvTSG)

275 Wish I could apologize, but.......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 22, 2021 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

It's not your fault I know what that is.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (Ez6QX)

276 "No one can point to a reason for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing"

Heh. Reminds me of the DC Public Defender who gave the required disclosure that she wasn't licensed to practice law in Maryland, and then proceeded to threaten me with lawfare.

That's not how it works, sweetie.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 11:58 AM (83lwH)

277 I wonder how many other people are doing the same, regardless of the price of gas?

I'm only accepting contacts in states I can drive to that honor my carry permit. Have no plans on dealing with the arrogant sky bartenders ever again.

Posted by: East of Omaha at June 22, 2021 11:58 AM (9LYIb)

278 249
Backstreet Boys members AJ McLean and Nick Carter partnered up with NSYNC's Joey Fatone and Lance Bass to create the ultimate boy-band: "Back-Sync."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 22, 2021 11:52 AM (d9FiS)

Their first single will be titled "Space Docking."
======
But will it be better than "Back Door Lover"?

Posted by: exdem13 at June 22, 2021 11:58 AM (W+kMI)

279 102- BTW what are the thoughts around Charles CW Cooke? His stuff is pretty good in America's First Freedom, but I don't crossover to NR to read him anymore.
Posted by: Mishdog at June 22, 2021 11:21 AM

He's the only one I miss.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 22, 2021 11:59 AM (qe5CM)

280 The number of people stopped from buying guns through the U.S. background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales, according to new records obtained by the group Everytown for Gun Safety.

That 10 years min sentence. FBI too busy dressing up in white sheets and infiltrating book clubs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2021 11:59 AM (yrol0)

281 Ahoy, Rich Lowry!

Posted by: Little Admiral Kristol at June 22, 2021 11:59 AM (TKmok)

282 If Xhe does win the BMX gold, it will be a great first step in eliminating women's events from the olympics.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 22, 2021 11:59 AM (psJgU)

283 since we're on Lowry, can we began talking salting watermelon ??

Posted by: REDACTED at June 22, 2021 11:59 AM (8o8kf)

284 I'm disappointed they went with Ramesh Ponuru. I really thought Harry had a chance after they invited him back for a third interview.

Posted by: Meghan at June 22, 2021 11:59 AM (mNhhD)

285 279 102- BTW what are the thoughts around Charles CW Cooke? His stuff is pretty good in America's First Freedom, but I don't crossover to NR to read him anymore.
Posted by: Mishdog at June 22, 2021 11:21 AM

He's the only one I miss.
Posted by: Moonbeam at June 22, 2021 11:59 AM (qe5CM)

=========

He's apparently the one who told Ace that he was a bad conservative for supporting Trump back in the earliest days of the Trump presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (LvTSG)

286 It's not your fault I know what that is.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM

Someone ignored the rule about searching for things, didn't she?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (m+jkK)

287 It took mankind millenia to learn how to fly.

It took leftist government less than half a century to turn it into something the average person hates worse than a root canal.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (c9WaF)

288 "I wish we still had Donald Trump in the White House, so he could tell Japan we would revoke his passport and leave him stranded in Japan if this happened. "

I'm thinking of writing them to ask. Why not? My sister-in-law is Japanese so I'll get her advice on the editing.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (83lwH)

289 ... airlines are asking the FAA and Congress to "do something" about angry passengers. They want stiffer criminal penalties. "No one can point to a reason" for all the angry yelling at stewardesses but "most of the confrontations are connected to required mask wearing", says CNBC. ...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2021 11:40 AM (Fj6k3)
++++
The FAA - and the airlines - need to pull their heads out their collective asses toot sweet. I have nothing to good to say about the CDC, but credit where it is do: they nailed the timing on rolling back mandate guidance. The preference cascade was already underway - though very early - when they backtracked and said, "no masks if vaccinated,. This was a big victory for the CDC, because it looked like they were leading when they were actually being fast-followers.

Once the preference cascade breaks out - and it has - stopping it is impossible without brutal, draconian enforcement. The airline lobbying cartel calling for the FAA to do harder enforcement has major risks. They can't deal with the problem they made without brutal crackdowns, which will make the push-back even worse. The FAA missed it's chance to pretend to lead.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (Jsjd7)

290 >>I really hope the dude wins and does it.
Not enough people realize that the left outright hates America. It'll be a great visual that cuts through a lot of bullshit.

This.

Also, for 3(?) years now we've been told that kneeling during the national anthem, instead of the hand on heart while facing the flag, was not unpatriotic. Uh huh, right, you're not disrespecting the flag.

However, set that sucker on fire -- from the podium, no less? There will be no spinning that.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (bDqIh)

291 >>>Not enough people realize that the left outright hates America. It'll be a great visual that cuts through a lot of bullshit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (LvTSG)
------------------------

It's not just America, they are the personification of hate.
They are hate.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (jg5Rp)

292 Is the U Haul fag still working at NR?

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (/MaDp)

293 I just read that one of America's out and proud LGBTBMX transathletes
plans to burn his country's flag after beating the world's female
athletes at the Olympics. I wish we still had Donald Trump in the White
House, so he could tell Japan we would revoke his passport and leave him
stranded in Japan if this happened. I could foresee all sorts of
difficulties in their entry Visa paperwork after that.
IIRC, after the Tommy Smith and John Carlos black power salutes in 1968, the IOC forbade political statements on the podia. Since the guy has already said he'll do it, he should either be forced to retract or banned. Wanna bet neither one happens?

Posted by: pep at June 22, 2021 12:01 PM (v16oJ)

294 just read that one of America's out and proud LGBTBMX transathletes plans to burn his country's flag after beating the world's female athletes at the Olympics. I wish we still had Donald Trump in the White House, so he could tell Japan we would revoke his passport and leave him stranded in Japan if this happened. I could foresee all sorts of difficulties in their entry Visa paperwork after that.
Posted by: Downcast at June 22, 2021 11:55 AM (wWUb3)

But this is now Senile Joe's America not that bad orange man's America.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 22, 2021 12:01 PM (cSyAR)

295 Build your own plane, rubes!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 22, 2021 12:01 PM (6FeV1)

296 Huh.

You know who else Google was funding?

EcoHealth Alliance.

Connect the dots, sheeple.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at June 22, 2021 12:02 PM (Clxcy)

297 NOOOOOOOOOOD

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2021 12:02 PM (ONvIw)

298 really hope the dude wins and does it.

Not enough people realize that the left outright hates America. It'll be a great visual that cuts through a lot of bullshit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 22, 2021 11:57 AM (LvTSG)

He ain't winning since he's only an alternate and it was all talk any way because he knows he may not even compete. Mentally ill.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 22, 2021 12:02 PM (2DOZq)

299 295 Build your own plane, rubes!
______________
How about we just buy ChiCom Stingers and crash yours?

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 22, 2021 12:02 PM (/MaDp)

300 I'm hoping for The Delta House Variant

It makes you drink beer and have toga parties.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 22, 2021 12:02 PM (Bmy3R)

301 "It's manufactured and then sort of- it seems to have been lit, the fire was lit," the NBC anchor [Chuck Todd] insisted.

Chuck is sort of right .. it was manufactured outside of NBC, who would have kept the parents of schoolchildren in the dark.

Posted by: SMOD at June 22, 2021 12:02 PM (RHGPo)

302 Bill Kristol is the one with the shotgun blast scars all over his face... on account of him shooting himself in the face, repeatedly, over the last 5 years.
=============================
I'm thinking the Dream team of Presidential advisers would look like this:
Bill Kristol, domestic/political affairs
Paul Krugman, economic affairs
John Kerry, international relations
Solicit their advice on their respective areas of expertise, then do the opposite. Guaranteed success.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 22, 2021 12:03 PM (7Fj9P)

303 Report: Biden's Tax Proposal Could Raise Rates On Over 60% Of Americans

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I did not know that 60% of Americans earned more than $400,000.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 22, 2021 12:03 PM (d9FiS)

304 Pep, thanks for the info re PBS. I've heard liberals sing from that hymnal re taxpayer funding of PBS, and then bitterly condemn efforts to end such funding.

Why, I have asked them, if it only amounts to 1% of their income?

You have provided the most cromulent answer.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 22, 2021 12:03 PM (YqDXo)

305 The number of people stopped from buying guns through the U.S. background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales

I would like to know if that is number of felons and drug addicts and/or noncitizens that were stupid enough to answer honestly on the 4473, or just people delayed. I've been delayed 3 times in the last year.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 22, 2021 12:03 PM (yQpMk)

306 I always associated Rich Lowry with seasoning salt. You know, that shit college freshmen put on their microwave generic TV dinners.

Posted by: Chef Boy Ardy at June 22, 2021 12:03 PM (stW/m)

307 The base has lost the definition of conservatism, and I'm not sure Lowry or Ponuru would be able to teach this base the basics of conservative principles. Lowry spent a lot of his time shooting into the void at people who didn't understand the history of the United States.

Posted by: Michael at June 22, 2021 12:03 PM (sQAmP)

308 Q: Why don't you teach prostitutes philosophy?

A: That would be putting Descartes before the whores.
Posted by: Rich "Big Picture" Lowry: "We'll Be Here All Week. Folks!" at June 22, 2021 11:10 AM (Ndje9)

+++++

Did you hear about the prostitute who became a poet?

She went from bed to verse.

Posted by: Brice Isright at June 22, 2021 12:03 PM (fBtlL)

309 The number of people stopped from buying guns through the U.S. background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales, according to new records obtained by the group Everytown for Gun Safety."

Everytown for Gun Safety. LOL. Astroturf Group fakes gun records.

Ignorant here, but it seems counter-intuitive to count 300,000 people NOT entered in your records. What am I missing?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 12:04 PM (83lwH)

310 My bad, nm I misread the opening sentence. Sorry

Coffee Intern!

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 22, 2021 12:05 PM (83lwH)

311 >>It took leftist government less than half a century to turn it into something the average person hates worse than a root canal.

. . . and airlines. I avoid all but Southwest because it's become a nickle-and-diming me game -- do you want to pay for a seat upgrade from the very last row? do you want to pay $25 luggage or carry-on fee? do you want to pay a fee for boarding earlier than the last group? do you want to pay the fees for in-flight movie and food?

All that AND rude air attendents!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2021 12:05 PM (bDqIh)

312 12 Standing Athwart History Yelling "Yes, Mr. Omyidyar! Right Away, Mr. Pinchai!""
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at June 22, 2021 11:06 AM (Ndje9)

"Over to you, Mr. Ponnuru!"

Srsly, are there Americans involved?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 22, 2021 12:05 PM (YqDXo)

313 Someone ignored the rule about searching for things, didn't she?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2021 12:00 PM (m+jkK)

Heh. No, someone on a message board a long time ago told me about that one. Along with frottage.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2021 12:05 PM (Ez6QX)

314 Nood.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 22, 2021 12:05 PM (khAeP)

315 142 95 Revenant,
Yes, GOPe official party organization is that way. Key is same as what the leftists did--go outside the party with your local political organizations and be ruthless about expelling people that are time wasters, shills, plants, and grifters.

Party organizations are like the plot for the Producers--they are composed of grifters that aim to line their own pockets and those of their friends and winning and losing campaigns is beside the point. Get a copy of Heinlein's Take Back Your Government on how local politics can be cleaned up which then affects the state and national level. You do not need the money for the glossy ads if you have a true grassroots political organization.
Posted by: whig at June 22, 2021 11:27 AM (pO7gM)

Whig - thank you for this suggestion. I just bought Heinlein's book.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 22, 2021 12:07 PM (mdjgu)

316 Nood Jewish elbows. Real = Spectacular

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 22, 2021 12:07 PM (7Fj9P)

317 i can proudly state that as a full-bore Trumptard, i have not clicked an nr link since the infamous "against Trump" issue.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 22, 2021 12:08 PM (wHoql)

318 National review is bragging about ALMOST FINALLY breaking even?!

Posted by: LASue at June 22, 2021 12:10 PM (IHoII)

319 >> Pep, thanks for the info re PBS. I've heard liberals sing from that hymnal re taxpayer funding of PBS, and then bitterly condemn efforts to end such funding.

My favorite was when NPR got 100's of millions form Ray Kroc's widdow (McDonald's founder's money). It was enough to cover an entire year's operationg expenses, maybe a bot more. Thought that may they might take a break from one of their listener fundraisers, to thanks them but explain that a portion of the Kroc money would cover that season's doner goals (and tuck away the rest to get interest for ongoing NPR expenses).

Nope. Didn't even make a big deal about it, just tucked away the entire donation and fundraised as usual -- "Give us $80 for a 2-cd Masterpiece Theater series set and we'll send you a travel mug -- we rely on donors like you!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at June 22, 2021 12:10 PM (bDqIh)

320 I'm cat-sitting for the parents of a dear departed friend who chose to drive to Oregon and Minnesota for a vacation instead of flying. I wonder how many other people are doing the same, regardless of the price of gas?
Posted by: exdem13

I've done a number of car trips to Dallas in the past 18 months. 16 hours one way.

Child's play compared to flying.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2021 12:14 PM (Rvt88)

321 AFAICT, the board set up by Buckley in 2004 (which is presumably self-regenerating) has indulged Lowry and his camarilla, paying them exorbitant salaries. (National Review Institute is incorporated as a philanthropy and has fewer than 50 employees, a number of them telecommuters; Lowry last I checked had a compensation package per the IRS 990 of over $300,000 a year. At different times, Keven Williamson, David French, and Jonah Goldberg have received compensation north of $150,000 a year).

x

Posted by: Art Deco at June 22, 2021 12:17 PM (1BrBu)

322

It would surprise me to discover that the board actually canned him. Boards seldom have a will antagonistic to management.

The
doubling-down is no surprise. Recently Charles CW Cooke, a libertarian
who isn't friendly to Trump but is not fixated on him either,
relinquished his position as editor of <i>National Review
Online</i>. He was replaced by Philip Klein, who actually is
hostile to Trump.

Posted by: Art Deco at June 22, 2021 12:18 PM (1BrBu)

323

Not many people comment
there any more (the site's been quite buggy for a half-dozen years) and
the residue does consist of liberal loudmouths.

It
should be recalled that twenty years ago, their print subscriber base
was a half-again what they're claiming for print + digital today. And
what they're claiming is not very credible. That they have a gosizdat
foundation of institutional subscriptions I believe, but what's their
constituency otherwise? Stated dissatisfaction for Trump among
self-identified Republicans was in single digits at the end of 2019, no
more prevalent than Republican dissatisfaction with Nixon in 1972,
Reagan in 1984, and Bush II in 2004. There is no popular NeverTrump
constituency. Their stats are bogus.

Posted by: Art Deco at June 22, 2021 12:18 PM (1BrBu)

324 "Child's play compared to flying.

Posted by: Tonypete"

This ! never flying again, excepting force majeure ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 22, 2021 12:18 PM (wHoql)

325 "Their stats are bogus.

Posted by: Art Deco"

like just about all of publishing, and really just about everything period.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 22, 2021 12:22 PM (wHoql)

326 I subscribed to NR back during the Clinton and W admins. It was a waste of money even then.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 22, 2021 12:39 PM (LhcdG)

327 National Review is the Star Wars of conservative magazines

Posted by: Swamposphere at June 22, 2021 01:04 PM (KvssO)

328 Vdare had a good article recently on how the anti-immigration right was driven out by Buckley.

Buckley was a gritting snake. Not only has all the old stories about him being a man for every woman and a woman for every man started to drift out, he was in bed with as many corporate interests as would make his life comfortable.

Their driving out Peter Brimlow, John Derbyshire, John OSullivan, and Mark Steyn showed early what snakes they were. I was already out the door in the 2010 range, but would peak in for Steyn once and a while. Their gay managing editor throwing Steyn unde the bus was the end.

Since then they have basically alienated Victor Davis Hansen, who I have heard found the culture their to be hostile to him, while pushing Williamson and that deep state sychophant McCarthy. They are hostile to American workers, and full on for the gay and globalist agenda.

I pray for SMOD to have his holy way with them. Sorry Sefton! New York and DC must receive SMODs holy blessing for the country to become Normal again. And probably Silicon Valley too!

Posted by: Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty at June 22, 2021 01:36 PM (KqiMr)

329 The brimelow Vdare article

https://tinyurl.com/43ps9mhs

vdare.com Blast from the past - the end of american conservatism

Posted by: Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty at June 22, 2021 01:39 PM (KqiMr)

330 "National Review claiming it doesn't get money from Google, when its parent organization does take money from Google and then funds National Review with it, is every bit as absurd a lie" as your local PBS station saying it gets no money from the government while being subsidised by the goverment-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Posted by: aelfheld at June 22, 2021 01:42 PM (Zy9Yy)

331 Podcasting brings in lots of ad revenue. The Ringer came up with an excellent model. The articles are just quick hits to bring in readers, who they use as audience for their podcasts.

Posted by: MikeN at June 22, 2021 02:15 PM (5mbb9)

332 "Their stats are bogus.
Posted by: Art Deco"

Back in 2017-2018 when Goldberg was still there, he was going around saying the NRO site was getting higher traffic than ever before... and anyone could go on Alexa and see that NRO's taffic had dropped by a third in mid-2016 and never recovered.
They just lie, shamelessly, endlessly.

Posted by: Robert Hobart at June 22, 2021 02:35 PM (nf25e)

333 sad to see Rich go. He was the hard-hitting, win at all cost Right-wing advocate, feared by left-wing enemies, beloved by his friends. I'll miss his slashing wit, and full throated defense of all things conservative.

Yeah.

Posted by: rcocean at June 22, 2021 07:33 PM (evE25)

334 My previous comment was satire. In reality, no one will miss Rich Lowry. How can you miss someone who was never there?

Posted by: rcocean at June 22, 2021 07:35 PM (evE25)

335 For the last 20 years, National Review and Rich were the perfect "controlled opposition". Without and fire or wit, and constantly agreeing with the Left on Race, immigration, the Middle East, and every issue important to the Left. They were basically Liberals who supported low taxes and outsourcing. Oh, and giving $$$ to Large Defense contractors.

Losing to the Liberals wasn't a tragedy it was a business strategy.

Posted by: rcocean at June 22, 2021 07:44 PM (evE25)

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